AROUND in Classic Quotes

1  Jem and I crept around the yard for days.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  When she squinted down at me the tiny lines around her eyes deepened.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

3  There he would stand, his arm around the fat pole, staring and wondering.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  Jem looked around, reached up, and gingerly pocketed a tiny shiny package.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

5  Soon we were clustered around her desk, trying in our various ways to comfort her.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

6  We'll keep 'em till school starts, then go around and ask everybody if they're theirs.'

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

7  I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

8  They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

10  One afternoon as I raced by, something caught my eye and caught it in such a way that I took a deep breath, a long look around, and went back.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

11  The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pockets.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

13  One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver, resisted arrest by Maycomb's ancient beadle, Mr. Conner, and locked him in the courthouse outhouse.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

16  He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't said we couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought of a way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then we couldn't be accused of playing anything.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

17  They did little, but enough to be discussed by the town and publicly warned from three pulpits: they hung around the barbershop; they rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show; they attended dances at the county's riverside gambling hell, the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp; they experimented with stumphole whiskey.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1